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The customs services of Belarus and Ukraine are testing a system to exchange advance information as a pilot project, Mr Igor Kaletnik, Head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, told the high-level seminar on cooperation between the Customs Union member states and the Eastern Partnership Initiative countries in Kyiv on 11 October.

The press service of the State Customs Service of Ukraine told BelTA, advance electronic presentation of cargo information becomes more and more topical these days. If put into practice, the system allows the customs service in the country, to where cargoes will be shipped, to get information about the cargoes before the vehicle crosses the customs border. The information exchange results in facilitation and selectiveness of customs procedures and the shorter time required to process cargoes.

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